Heritage in depopulation is a unique project spread across three countries. Our team is formed from three smaller groups, each sat in their own country with uniqe set of expertise in their fields. Together we strife to gain a hollistic understanding of issue of depolulation and herritage.
Project leader, principal investigator for Czech Republic
email ivan.murin@umb.sk
Generation transmission of culture, heritage studies, collective memory, and communication analyses. He leads a team of researchers and PhD. students at the Charles University, Faculty of Humanities in Prague, Czech republic whose activities focus on culture transmission in local communities of Central Europe.
Deputy project leader, investigator for the Czech Republic, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.
Local communities in depopulated areas; cultural transmission related to migration and displacement; anthropological fieldwork; marginalized communities; anthropology of family and kinship; anthropology of Europe and the Balkans.
Historical demography, anthropology of family, history of culture with an emphasis on research methods of historical anthropology, its connection to the studies of long term socio-cultural changes.
He trained in medieval languages and history at the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge (PhD 2018). His primary research interests are in medical history, and the relationship between Latin and Old English scientific texts produced before 1100 CE.
He joined the project in a part time capacity as an English language consultant.
Principal investigator for Lithuania, Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Identification of landscape values, protection of urban heritage, assessment of the historical, current state and spatial structure of individual immovable cultural heritage sites, complexes and territories, studies on the visibility of cultural heritage sites and the spatial structure of territories, etc.
email ausra.mlinkauskiene@ktu.lt
Urban complex spatial modeling with focus on indirect relations between urban form and sustainability while using space syntax and another graph-based models, fractal analysis, evaluation of environmental preferences, aspects of environmental legibility, etc.
Research on the identity of the cityscape: the physical dimension, the sense of place dimension and the meaning of place dimension. Environmental psychology research – encouragement of environmentally friendly behaviour through urban design.
Urban Shape (As Memory) Influence On Social Capital, Biophilic Analysis of Façades, WiFi dynamics during COVID-19
Principal investigator for Shetlands, Institute for Northern Studies, Centre for Island Creativity, University of the Highlands and Islands
He has a long-standing interest in the history and culture of Shetland and in islands more generally. He runs a webinar series called Island Matters, and a series of workshops exploring the Scottish Islands in 2050 and beyond.
email andrew.jennings@uhi.ac.uk
Andrew is a lecturer at the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands. A historian by trade, Andrew’s research focuses on the European early modern period. However, having worked on several community impact projects in the past, Andrew is keenly interested in the ways in which history and heritage create and maintain modern identities.
